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The Hunt for the Golden State Killer

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Genealogy Using Relatives

We have to be able to generate a DNA profile that is compatible with upload into just an open source genealogical database. Once we got that and searched that database, we got a list of distant relatives. And when we reach a group of individuals that meet the criteria that we know about our offender, he was likely born between 1940 and 1960. We know he had a sacramental connection. Those individuals end up becoming somebody that we will look at.

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